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The food-as-medicine movement can improve economic health, environmental health, as well as patient well-being

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During the panel “Resetting the Table to Ensure Equitable Access to Nourishing and Sustainable Food,” stakeholders from across the value chain shared how nutrition insecurity disproportionately impacts select communities and how strategic production, procurement and distribution of food as medicine can to address some of the structural challenges associated with inequitable access to nutrition, health …

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Food as medicine startup with $3 million in funding

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Kyle Dardashchi tried numerous options — including pharmaceutical drugs — to treat Crohn’s disease, which causes inflammation in the digestive tract. But none of those options worked — until his doctor recommended it Specific carbohydrate diet, a diet that can treat Crohn’s disease. The experience later led him to help found a Los Angeles-based Heala …

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Instacart Health connects stakeholders to promote the food as medicine movement

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Recognizing that food insecurity stems from a number of factors, including lack of income and transportation or mobility barriers, and that poor diet correlates directly with increases in diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, Instacart is focusing its efforts on three areas. where she believes she can make the biggest difference: food …

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